BREAKING: Trump illegally seized the interpreter notes from his meeting with Putin, and Secretary Pompeo has refused to recover them, so we're taking Trump and Pompeo to court with @weareoversight.
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- NEW: We just sued the Trump Administration on behalf of @nwlc & @LCLAA for illegally blocking critical equal pay protections that help close the wage gap. @realDonaldTrump: You don't get to treat—or pay—women differently than men. See you in court. democracyforward.org/work/nwlc-lcla…
- NEW: Emails we uncovered show Trump administration officials revising Fox News tweets and Fox News rewriting stories to suit the administration’s whims. That isn’t journalism, it’s propaganda. hollywoodreporter.com/news/youre-man…
- .@realDonaldTrump has sabotaged the Affordable Care Act and driven up the cost of health insurance. #TrumpSabotage hurts families and violates the Constitution, so Columbus, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago & other Americans are taking Trump to court. More: democracyforward.org/work/trump-sab…
- BREAKING: Trump’s scheme to divert National Park funds to pay for his July 4th takeover may be illegal. We and @NPCA are demanding an investigation. democracyforward.org/press/groups-u…
- UPDATE: We have secured the release of a previously secret financial arrangement between the Trump-Vance administration and El Salvador to disappear people from U.S. territory to the notorious CECOT prison. This newly released document, part of our ongoing lawsuit, shows thatThe Trump administration is invoking wartime powers to deport people to El Salvador -- and the American people deserve answers. We filed a lawsuit to force transparency on decision-making from the nation's highest-ranking national security officials. democracyforward.org/updates/aea-fo…
- NEW: A federal court struck down the Trump administration’s rollback of a key equal pay protection and reinstated the protection for nearly 63 million workers.
- NEW: We and @votevets just sued the VA over a breathtakingly illegal scheme: empowering Mar-a-Lago members to steer Veterans Affairs policy from Trump’s golf club. A thread explaining the case ⬇️
- BREAKING: Ruling from the bench, a federal judge just rejected the Trump admin's attempt to shut down our case with @weareoversight that would force Pompeo to follow the law and recover the Putin meeting notes that Trump illegally seized. democracyforward.org/lawsuits/ameri…
- Read the fine print: the concerted attacks Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick & Ken Paxton are waging against the well-being of Texas women are not only contradictory to Texas values but continue to be devastating AND deadly. The full piece in @HoustonChron Sunday edition👏📰
- Replying to @DemocracyDocketWe are reviewing the Texas Supreme Court's decision right now, but this much is already clear: @GovAbbott fundamentally violated the principles of democracy & the Texas Constitution. A broad bipartisan coalition of current/former TX lawmakers agree. We will not be deterred!
- By seizing interpreter notes from his meeting with Putin, Trump has violated the Federal Records Act, and Secretary Pompeo violates the law by failing to take meaningful steps to recover those records. We're demanding Pompeo follow the law. democracyforward.org/lawsuits/deman…
- Civil servants deliver our mail, keep our water safe & air clean, and advance public health. Far-right extremists don’t value this work and want to replace civil servants with partisan loyalists. That’s why it’s important @POTUS announced new safeguards:
- We're representing @votevets to uncover what @realDonaldTrump might be hiding on Niger & Yemen. Americans deserve the truth.NEWS: We've sent FOIAs to get all Trump admin internal docs on response to Niger & Yemen: bit.ly/2zGaZ8f | bit.ly/2gENS6d
